What to muse about today?

November 27, 2010

So, I got tagged by Tina and Nina in Facebook, on this internet meme… I think I’ve done something like this before, a few years ago, but there’s always time to improve the counts :)

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis – Isn’t this part of the Chronicles of Narnia? Maybe they should have listed another CS Lewis book here, like That Hideous Strength or Till We Have Faces?

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres

Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne

Animal Farm – George Orwell

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery – loved the movies

Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Atonement – Ian McEwan

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

Dune – Frank Herbert

Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – saw the movie

A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas – I feel like I must have read this in French.

On The Road – Jack Kerouac

Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie – I read Satanic Verses, does that count?

I KNOW you read Germinal in French because I sat right next to you as we plowed through it…..I’ve read 45 with excerpts of a few others…I’m not the Tolkein/CS Lewis fan you are…..If I get a Kindle for xmas, I am going to read Jane Austen…..

Not a bad list!! You should try the CS Lewis – they’re short and sweet. I’ve only seen the first movie they’ve done so far, but it wasn’t badly done at all. Stu hasn’t seen any at all, so we’re going to try to watch them soon. The trailer for Voyage of the Dawn Treader looks amazing!!